Draft of the Troika Agreement - bad news for Ireland

[DaveMc]

It's an indication of how the troika will squeeze our balls come 2014.

The only thing left to squeeze in 2014 will be the public sector, the CP agreement ending will see massive cuts in PS numbers and wages; just ask those in FF, FG and the GP who done 'a deal with the Troika' before the last election to protect political pay and conditions at all costs.
Wonder why we saw no Tweets on that one?

[root for solidarity]

Just so to understand what these cuts (22% and plus another 10% for those who are under 25 years of age) in the basic wage, mean:

480 Euros a month, basic wage

420 Euros a month, basic wage for those who are under 25.


All wages in the private sector will go down, respectively.



As for the prices of things they are, for most, the typical "northern/western european" prices (actually some things are even pricier over here)

[LamportsEdge]

I have every confidence in the well-known negotiating skills of Ireland's political establishment when it comes to the 'big boys' from abroad. Do I get a prize for outrageous statement of the year on politics.ie thus far?

Seriously though I've come to the conclusion some time back that Ireland's political establishment have absolutely no clue what they are doing, have no expertise in the civil service on which to draw and are therefore defaulting simply to a policy of appeasement. The IMF arrival and effective budgetary control over the Irish economy was the economic equivalent of ignoring the Sudetenland. Next comes the invasion of Czechoslovakia, when the IMF and ECB turn their attention to the Irish public sector which is in realistic terms in an austerity setting a fat blood-filled tick on a starving carcass.

I'm also coming to the conclusion that it is going to take some utter national misery right across the board for the wider Irish population to realise that they are headed for the sharecropper fields again and back to working for the absentee landlord. Maybe this time what wil emerge afterwards is a real sense that the nation under attack is the same as attacks on the local parish.

You only know the value of something when you've lost it.

[BlackLion]

I have every confidence in the well-known negotiating skills of Ireland's political establishment when it comes to the 'big boys' from abroad. Do I get a prize for outrageous statement of the year on politics.ie thus far?

Seriously though I've come to the conclusion some time back that Ireland's political establishment have absolutely no clue what they are doing, have no expertise in the civil service on which to draw and are therefore defaulting simply to a policy of appeasement. The IMF arrival and effective budgetary control over the Irish economy was the economic equivalent of ignoring the Sudetenland. Next comes the invasion of Czechoslovakia, when the IMF and ECB turn their attention to the Irish public sector which is in realistic terms in an austerity setting a fat blood-filled tick on a starving carcass.

I'm also coming to the conclusion that it is going to take some utter national misery right across the board for the wider Irish population to realise that they are headed for the sharecropper fields again and back to working for the absentee landlord. Maybe this time what wil emerge afterwards is a real sense that the nation under attack is the same as attacks on the local parish.

You only know the value of something when you've lost it.

people across the board will have to suffer before anything happens.